Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream

Post notes for the speech. Consider all 5 points in the rhetorical pentagram and write a brief evaluation of the speech in which you account for the use of predominant rhetorical features.

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  1. The Rhetorical pentagram:

    Speaker:
    Martin Luther King Jr. he was a priest and a spokesmanfor the civilrights-movement + he was a afro american.

    Audience:
    Primary audience: the people at the lincoln memorial, both black and white people.
    Secondary audience: all americans, the politicians and other nations of the world

    Circumstanses:
    Divirsity between races, it has been a 100 years after the signing of the emansipation proclamation. jim crow laws, there is a peasfull demonstration at the lincoln memorial.

    Topic:
    Equal rights for afro-americans and white americans.

    Language:
    he uses metaphores, biblical qoutations, he uses a lot of pathos.

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